The design methodology of a new IBM computer chip inspired by the human brain was pioneered by Cornell Tech’s Rajit Manohar. “After years of collaboration with IBM, we are now a step closer to building a computer similar to our brain,” Manohar said.
Striving to achieve safer, longer-lasting batteries for the modern world’s trappings – automobiles, cell phones, computers, autonomous robots – Cornell chemical engineers have added salt to their chemistry.
For a Mars rover, you need a roving eye – and scientists to build it: Cornell's Alex Hayes and Rob Sullivan will help build Mastcam-Z on the Mars 2020 NASA mission.
A five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation grant will allow chemists from Cornell and other institutions to study new ways to make plastics more sustainable.
Cornell Professor Brian Wansink and colleagues have launched the Slim by Design Registry. It asks slim people to share their tips about how they stay slim.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development, is the 2014 recipient of the Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from The Gerontological Society of America.
Twenty-three Mexican undergraduates joined research labs at Cornell this summer as part of President Obama's 100,000 Strong Initiative, an effort to increase student exchanges with Latin America.
Three graduate students learned from faculty members Jed Sparks and Harry Greene how to teach field courses to undergraduates on a 10-day field course to Arizona.
Biophysics is a science of shapes – the shapes of molecules like DNA as they wrap and unwrap around protein cores, for instance. Cornell researchers have unveiled a new method for observing such processes in real time.
Some 250 hours of fragile audio material from Cornell’s ILR School from 1953 to 1978 will be available to the public soon, thanks to a grant from the New York State Library.
When Yuri Orlov, professor of physics and government, celebrates his 90th birthday Aug. 13, he will be honored from Ithaca to Russia and across radio waves worldwide.
